Global financial investment for offshore wind capacity set records in 2020, according to research from The Renewables Consulting Group (RCG). According to RCG’s Global Renewable Infrastructure Projects (GRIP) database, the total capacity financed for offshore wind last year reached 8,370 MW across the European, Americas and Asia Pacific (excluding China) regions, eclipsing the previous total of 6,438 MW ins ...

Vestas has appointed Purvin Patel as its new president of Asia Pacific. Patel joins Vestas from a position as CEO of facilities management company ISS UK & Ireland. He has more than 25 years of commercial and operational leadership experience, and has previously served in leadership positions at US retail chain Walmart, UK home improvement firm Kingfisher Group and Indian supply chain solutions company ...

Siemens Gamesa will supply 29 wind turbines of its Siemens Gamesa 4.X platform in the 145 meters rotor diameter variant to new local independent power producer Hanbaram Wind Power. The 117 MW project reinforces Siemens Gamesa as a frontrunner in Vietnam’s fast-growing renewable energy market. The wind farm will generate enough electricity for close to a quarter of a million people in the Ninh Thuan province ...

Shearwater and Nuscale sign a Memorandum of Understanding to investigate project Shearwater Energy Ltd., a United Kingdom-based hybrid clean energy company, is developing a wind-SMR (Small Modular Reactor) and hydrogen production hybrid energy project in North Wales. The project would provide 3 GWe of zero-carbon energy and is also expected to produce over 3 million kilograms of green hydrogen per year for ...

Global institutional investor CDPQ and experienced local investor Cathay PE will co-invest 50% of the 605MW Greater Changhua 1 Offshore Wind Farm. Global institutional investor CDPQ and experienced local investor Cathay PE will co-invest 50% of the 605MW Greater Changhua 1 Offshore Wind Farm.Ørsted will retain a 50% share ownership in the Greater Changhua 1 Offshore Wind Farm, as well as deliver the full co ...

 In partnership with Global Power Generation, a subsidiary of the multinational power company Naturgy Group, Vestas has secured a 96 MW deal for the Hawkesdale Wind Farm in Victoria, Australia. The project will feature 23 V136-4.2 MW wind turbines which Vestas will supply and install. Upon completion, Vestas will also deliver a 15-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement. Wi ...

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said that it welcomes the Vietnamese government’s recent decision to extend the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme for wind power, but considers the proposed FIT reduction too steep. The proposed rates of USD 0.0702 (EUR 0.0578) per kWh for onshore wind and USD 0.0847/kWh for intertidal/nearshore wind will start applying to projects commissioned between November 2021 and Decem ...

Equinor and SINTEF have agreed on a strategic collaboration in four key areas. The areas are offshore wind, marine systems, energy systems and modelling studies related to these areas. SINTEF is Equinor's biggest partner in the fields of research and technology development. Now, for the first time, the companies have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement. The purpose of the agreement is ...

Photo taken on Nov. 12, 2020 shows a wind turbine manufactured by Vestas Wind Technology (China) Co. Ltd. in north China's Tianjin Municipality. (Photo provided to Xinhua) TIANJIN, Giant wind turbine blades measuring more than 65 meters are laid out in the storage area of a sprawling wind turbine factory in north China's Tianjin Municipality, waiting to be transported to the nearby seaport and shipped to ot ...

ArcVera Renewables, a leading international provider of consulting and technical services for wind, solar and energy storage projects, was enlisted by a major Indian Independent Power Producer (IPP) to analyze wind resource variation cause and effect after an unexpected drop in wind farm energy production in the country. Although variable year-to-year, wind power production in India in Q2-Q3 2020 has b ...